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New Class starts August 9, 2025: DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna”

This course contains the Dharmas you need to practice to be able to implement what you learned from the text of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. It also includes testimonials from three disciples...

August 4, 2025

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Lifts Vajra Pestle Weighing over 473 Pounds with a Hook in One Hand, December 23, 2021

Professional Strongmen waiting to lift various pestles, December 2021. Until the time when Maitreya Bodhisattva attain Buddhahood, no holy beings or ordinary beings will be able to lift up the Buddha Pestle that His...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Dharma of No Dharma

One begins (to practice the dharma of no dharma) with the aspect of the conditioned. One realizes one’s original mind with the aspect of the unconditioned. Realizing there is no mind to realize is enlightenment.”...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Original Mind-Buddha Mind

When the mind of a practitioner engenders faith or confidence and the power of vows, his original mind is as vast as that of a Buddha. There are no Buddhas outside the mind. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III from...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Wonderful Existence/Tathagata-garbha

All dharmas (phenomena) truly exist. One does not eliminate thoughts of the past. One does not cut off thoughts of the future. Through non-attachment, the mind generates the state of wonderful-existence. This is the...

August 3, 2025

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Photo of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. , Washington D.C., January 19, 2012.

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English Sources of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s Dharma-REVISED

Download brochure on major Dharma teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III with new links to those available in English.

August 2, 2025

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Photo of The jewels comprise nearly 1,800 pearls, rubies, sapphires, and patterned gold sheets, courtesy of Sotheby's.

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Return of Buddha’s Jewels

The jewels comprise nearly 1,800 pearls, rubies, sapphires, and patterned gold sheets, courtesy of Sotheby’s. The following article was published by the BBC News, Soutik Biswas, July 31, 2025: Auction house...

August 1, 2025

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On-Line Chants for the Holy Vajrasana Temple-Revised Again

Faint rainbows appear on clouds at temple. Having received requests for this article with the chants we chant during the 6:00 am temple zoom boadcast, I am reposting FYI. Please note that some chants that we use have...

August 1, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 26, 2025

We started Lesson 35 of DCB25 using “So recite the prajna-paramita mantra, recite the mantra that says: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.” from the Heart Sutra as our text. The...

July 26, 2025

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QUOTE-Correspondence of your three karmas

As for correspondence of your three karmas, they should be in correspondence when you sit on your Dharma-practice seat. Your three karmas should be in correspondence after you get up from your Dharma-practice seat...

July 26, 2025

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